Yoko Tawada’s strange and compelling THE EMISSARY takes place in a dystopian Japan. Beset by radiation and isolated from the rest of the world, the old have been cursed with eternal life and the young are born sickly, changed. Despite this bleak premise, Tawada’s novel is suffused with a peculiar sweetness and charm. Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani. 🇯🇵 #translatedtuesday #yokotawada #theemissary (at Unabridged Bookstore)









